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Haul: Black Radiance lipstick in 5005. I think the sticker, that you need to peel off to use the lipstick, said the name was Red Sahara. Bought it to play around with the oxblood trend and was pleasantly surprised at the quality.

Weekend Plans: Just exercising and playing video games.

Best Gift You’ve Ever Received: When my SO took me to Kitt Peak National Observatory for their nightly observing program for my birthday. I love astronomy and I always wanted to go to a “big deal” observatory since my university did not have the best equipment or sky conditions for observing.

If you ever have the opportunity to go to Arizona I really recommend checking out the observatories. They have a lot of great ones there. Depending on where you live in California it might not even be too far away. Kitt Peak was a lot of fun!

Haul: Tarte exposed blush and tarte call of the wild eyeshadow palette. Also it was my boyfriend’s 30th bday yesterday so all the gifts i got him were hauled. He also gave me L’Artisan Seville A l’Aube parfum as an early xmas gift. I’m so spoiled!!

Weekend plans: Hopefully nothing. it’s been an exhausting week. i work at a consumer driven company and this month is our busiest! we have like 6 temps doing overflow!! I will be going to see my parents early before their flight to south africa to give them their xmas gifts since they will be gone until after the new year

best gift ever received: Every gift my boyfriend has ever given me is the best because he picks each one out. And also my violin (even though I paid for half), it was the best gift my parents gave me.

Haul: I bought Bronze, Constructivist Paint Pot, Antique Gold Reflecks and Full Coverage Foundation from MAC. I also bought a ton of hair stuff and the set of Lip Tars from Sephora.
Weekend plans: We’re going to my husband’s Christmas party tomorrow, and he has to go figure out which golf clubs he wants for Christmas!
Best gift you’ve ever received?: My mom sent me a fully decorated Christmas tree. My husband is in the military and we always go home for Christmas, so I don’t take the time to decorate. Last week I was feeling a little down and homesick, so my mom sent me a tree to cheer me up. She’s pretty awesome!

Your pup is adorable 🙂 I love showing photos of him to my husband. I wanted to thank you for featuring those personalized ornaments. We got one for our dane. I cannot wait to get it and put it on our tree.

■Haul: I decided to try the Elf Baked Blushes since I heard they were decent dupes for MSFs and I wanted some new highlighters. I also picked up Perky and Seductive Intent from the Taste Temptation promo. And a red lip liner for the Chanel Lippie I splurged on last week.

■Weekend plans: Cheesy Christmas movies and hot cocoa 🙂

■Best gift you’ve ever received?: Finding out that I’m going to be aunt next summer 🙂

Weekend plans: Finish Christmas & B-Day shopping for my Mom. Me and her are both Christmas time babies so a lot of gift shopping for the holidays.

Best gift you’ve ever received?: My own TV when I was 10. But my parents made me pick it out for my Nana, wrap it for her, Give it to her on Christmas Day and then have her tell me to check the gift tag. lol
One of the few time I freaked out in excitement. Not that I wasn’t excite for everything on Christmas/B-day but I internalized my excitement as a kid.

Haul: The Diorling Diorific lipstick I got for my mother as a Christmas gift has just arrived. I hope she likes it.

Weekend plans: I’m in the middle of exams -while I’m sick, how very fantastic-, so workkk.

Best gift you’ve ever received?: I can think of several gifts, each being very meaningful to me. My godfather gave me Saint Augustine’s Confessions for my Declaration of faith (hope that’s the right translation of Profession de foi -that’s a catholic ceremony) in the edition of la Pléiade. La Pléiade is a publishing house that offers gorgeous, scholarly editions of first-rate authors, so it’s obviously a beautiful gift. I didn’t read it until I was older, but it started my deep-seated love for Augustine.
Two birthday gifts that are really significant to me: a Calvin Klein watch my father bought me for my 17th birthday (my sister chose it, so it comes from the two of them!). It was the first year I was away from home from my study, and we had just got through some tough times then. My sister and I had begun to grow much closer too, so it has a symbolical value to me!
For my eighteenth birthday I received a McQueen scarf. It’s incredibly gorgeous: an map of the old London on pale, dusty pink silk. I actually got this a year after said birthday -I knew I wanted a McQueen scarf -love the late designer- but I wanted to be sure I’d pick one I’d cherish forever, and there’s only a small selection available in France. I found the one while in vacation in London with my dad, after going to a lot of shops to buy one. BUT it was on Net-à-Porter website, on sale, and they were the only one to have it, so my father bought it here!
The last one is a tiny, beautiful book of christian, jewish and muslim tales. They’re all so full of poetry; if I’m feeling down, I read one or two. It always soothes me. I can’t remember who gave it to me, but I like to think it’s my grandmother. She was a marvelous person, and it’s the kind of gift she would have made.

Haul: WnW eyeliner pencils in Purple & Amethyst; WnW nail polish in Night Prowl (if MAC Young Punk were a polish), Blue Moon (indoors, it looks like a blackened teal, outdoors it’s navy), & Disturbia (if the purple side of NARS Melusine were a polish, which is something I’ve wanted for a long time).

Plans: My daughter’s social skills group is doing a trip to the mall to do a bit of “Christmas shopping”, so we’re going to make a whole day of it. Macy’s just started carrying Inglot, so I plan to check that out. Of course, there’s also both Sephora locations, and Ulta… I highly doubt I’ll pick anything up though, as playing Santa isn’t cheap, and the bank accounts need to be replenished, LOL.

*For those in the Los Angeles area, Macy’s @ the Westfield Culver City Mall (formerly Fox Hills Mall) just got Inglot last week.*

Best gift: My daughter; I know *every* parent says this, but she truly is amazing, and absolutely gorgeous (I get stopped by complete strangers telling me so every time we go out).

My daughter has very mild, extremely high functioning autism, or likely Aspberger’s Syndrome, so although she does well academically, she’s lacking in peer relationship skills (she gets along fine with adults, though). The group consists of other kids on the autism spectrum, and they learn things like party games, introductions, greetings, etc. Her group is a bit below her functioning level, but we have to wait until Spring to get her into a level appropriate group, so we’re just passing time.

That’s really great that you’ve enrolled her in something like that! I know someone who could have really benefited from something like that earlier on, so it’s fantastic that those things exist. Hopefully the spring group will help her even more 🙂

I am a children’s therapist and I work with students with Aspergers’ and Autism all the time. Its great that she is in a social skills group, we are still trying to pool resources to get ours started! That made me smile!

Weekend plans: Relax, since first semester is now over! Let winter break begin!

Best gift you’ve ever received?: I can’t think of what the BEST was. However, one that I absolutely loved was tickets to go see “Fiddler on the Roof” onstage with Topol! (It’s my favorite movie, musical, and play, and since Topol starred in the movie, I was ridiculously excited.)

Haul: Can’t remember if it was this week or last that I bought some nail polishes. OPI Merryberry Mauve, OPI Sonic Bloom, OPI Nutcracker Sweet, Butter London Trustafarian, Illamasqua Noble and Illamasqua Cameo. I was so annoyed that the two Illamasqua polishes were US exclusive, so when I got an email saying they were available online in Europe I had to order them right away 😀

Weekend plans: Christmas shopping

Best gift you’ve ever received?: Hard question! Probably a trip in a small airplane when I was like 9-10. It only took 4 people, so I went with my grandparents and we flew over the house where I lived at the time. I was a great birthday surprise for someone who had never been in a plane before!

Best gift you’ve ever received?: Finding out I’m going to be an Aunt in February!! 😀

Hope you had a good week, Shaun and Christine! I hope everyone has a great weekend. Also, thoughts and prayers to those affected by the mass shooting at an elementary school in Connecticut. What a horrible tragedy.

Yes — yesterday was a very tragic day, and I hope that all those affected are surrounded by the love and support of their community in this difficult time – and know they are embraced by the world right now for their losses.

Haha, I actually think the baby will be a boy. They wanted it to be a surprise, so we won’t find out til baby is born. My SIL and I both had dreams that it was going to be a boy way before she was pregnant, and apparently everyone else seems to think it’ll be a boy. A girl would be fun, but I’d be totally shocked if it was actually a girl.

Haul: If you’re including last Friday in this (which I am going to) then I got 2 sparkly tank tops from express (on sale for $15 each!), some pajama items and socks from aerie, the black friday too faced chocolate soeil (yea spelled that wrong) bronzer with kabubi (the sephora jcpenny store I went to have ONE left! My lucky day), the bare essential kit with primer, illuminizing mineral veil, eye cream and well-rested pen, UD Naked Basics (came in the mail Monday) and if this counts my ipsy bag

One recipe is based on a redwine cake including chocolate, cacao and smashed walnuts, baked in small paper cups instead of a cake pan. This one gets a redwine powdered sugar coat. The other one is an almond-chocolate version with a cherry and liquid chocolate topping. I use almonds instead of hazlenuts, because some of my co-workers react to hazlenuts.

I don’t like to bring normal cakes to the office, because I have to provide spoons or forks and plates and have to clean them afterwards. Cake normally crumbles. so the kitchen is always dirty. So I just offer napkins